Indicator 11.2
The Top American Research Universities from The Center for Measuring University Performance - UC and Comparison Institutions, 2005 to 2007
| Number of Measures in Top 25 (max = 9) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | |
| Berkeley | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Davis | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Irvine | - | 1 | - |
| Los Angeles | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Riverside | - | - | - |
| San Francisco | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| San Diego | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Santa Barbara | - | 1 | 1 |
| Santa Cruz | - | - | - |
| U of Illinois | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| U of Michigan | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| SUNY at Buffalo | - | - | - |
| U of Virginia | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Harvard | 8 | 9 | 9 |
| MIT | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| Stanford | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| Yale | 7 | 7 | 7 |
The Center for Measuring University Performance at Arizona State University ranks the top American research universities (defined as those with at least $20 million in research expenditures) into two tiers: 1-25 and 26-50.
The center constructs its lists by ranking institutions on nine measures: total research expenditures, expenditures on federally funded research, endowment assets, annual giving, National Academy members, faculty awards, doctorates granted, postdoctoral appointees and SAT/ACT scores. The center weights all nine variables equally and groups institutions into a tier according to how many times they rank in the top 25 (or top 50) on each of these measures. Those that score in the top 25 on at least one measure fall into the top tier.
Unlike the National Research Council or U.S. News and World Report, the center relies exclusively on objective measures and does not include academic reputation in its ranking scheme. However, its rankings are biased toward institutions with large medical centers since these attract a disproportionate amount of funding from the National Institutes of Health which is responsible for the majority of research funding distributed by the federal government (see Indicator 9.6). The data also are not normalized by faculty size, resulting in lower rankings for smaller institutions.
Source: The Center for Measuring University Performance. Additional information can be found at http://mup.asu.edu/research_data.html.
You may view or download a table of the raw data used to generate these charts in CSV files, which can be opened in spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice.